ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

WORK

EP of the year xp p sure this is the first time I've voted for 2 tracks off the same EP but by different artists

lol @ the top comment

This song made me drink a jar of coffee and register 3 businesses

Is sweat dripping off your balls?

love "Beam Me Up", "Work It" does nothing for me though

this song is so fuckin funky

love "Beam Me Up", "Work It" does nothing for me though

― ufo, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:25 PM

this

Idrg her stuff but at least it has some oomph

seeing she's from mtl makes this make a lot more sense

yeah this song... it's cool but I just can't quite tell if it's supposed to be ironic or deadly serious and that makes me uncomfortable, and that discomfort, I can only assume, is part of the appeal. Either way it's kind of a 21st century 'LOADSAMONEY' with a funky electro soundtrack

best day of the countdown

hoping at least one more kpop track will place tomorrow, there's one thread favourite that surely should make it?

"Work It" just takes a bit too long to really get into things for me

the Octa Octa track def my fave of the bobbins

If you’re into “work it” or you are not but love hearing about gear or the music making process search a youtube video of her at the red bull music academy. Apparently she does all her music on minimal, analog gear (gets some approving nods from Tatsuya Takahashi in the background) and she comes off as very charming. Also seeing her get in and out of character for this song is cool.

I'd be surprised if "Power Up" didn't make it but I am v far from a kpop expert xps

This track makes me think of those dumbfuck FIVERR subway ads

http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/mg_advert_depression_comp.png
http://i.imgur.com/gB4ZIrn.jpg
http://mikekosk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fiverr_poster.jpg

also this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html

all very jay mcinerney all over again

seeing she's from mtl makes this make a lot more sense

― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:27 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol I had the same reaction

octo octa is amazing though, as is that EP

We're going down to 29 today, 13 on Thursday and the top 12 on Friday.

This feels like an odd and possibly deliberate breakdown of the tracks that I don't recall being done before.

Brad and I seem to agree half the time these days - today has been the other half

Care to elaborate on the Montreal connotation?

29: Marie Davidson – “Work It”
30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)”
31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo”
32: Tirzah – “Holding On”
33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW”
34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen”
35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko”
36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp”
37: Hatchie – “Sure”
38: Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala”
39: Simmy – “Umahlalela”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
41: The Beths – “Little Death”
42: Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
44: Peach – “Silky”
45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”
46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”
51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”
52: Autechre – “all end”
53: Mitski – “Geyser”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
55: The Chats – “Smoko”
56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”
57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”
58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”
59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”
61: Wizkid – “Soco”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”
70: MGMT – “When You Die”
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”
72: Drake – “Nice for What”
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”
74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

it's been 17/20/20/20 in the past instead of 17/16/16/16/12 yeah

This feels like an odd and possibly deliberate breakdown of the tracks that I don't recall being done before.

we used to not do Fridays because the euros would be out during the top 10 but now everyone's old and/or has smartphones

work it = britney's work bitch but make it goth

glad to see good bobbins still placing

Let's Eat Grandma are definitely in that 'bands I refuse to check out based entirely on their name'. May as well call yourselves 'Eats Shoots and Leaves'

<3 that octo octa split EP and all the breaky stuff like it that's been coming out these past couple years

dog latin i feel that

wait do euros get fridays off? why do i live in this country again?

Still thinking Talaboman is the highlight of the poll so far. I'm liking the Simmys from today though.

They don't xp

Care to elaborate on the Montreal connotation?

― pomenitul, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:34 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it just reminds me of something one of my partner's (Mtl) art students might make--or to put it another way, I think the Mtl connection makes it easy to decide the lyrics are parodic. also, I was pretty sure I was correctly identifying her accent, but wasn't 100%

Gotcha. I'm always a wee bit bemused by what the ROC makes of Montreal.

Brad and I seem to agree half the time these days - today has been the other half

― imago, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:33 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you don't like a relentless stream of good house and techno then idk man

Just not built for it -_- soz

this year's rollout has felt a bit less surprising overall, feels mostly like highlights from albums that'll certainly do well too, bobbins stuff aside

no idea what's going to do the best of what's left though

tbf the bobbins fugues are the reason i fell in love with this poll (cf. lindstrøm & prins thomas in 2009)

i love catching up with the year in bobbins since it's not something i really keep up with and this year's been more to my taste than usual

work it is cool!

"if someone w/ music theory chops beyond grade 1 cld pin down what is going on with the beat/flow interplay I wld be v curious because I am a slave to it"

This is very good - it sounds like, while the vocals are on beat, there are huge swathes of the song where everything else is offbeat, including the clicks and hi-hats. But the bass shifts between being on and off the beat every eight bars or so. It gives the whole thing a swing that's largely absent from a lot of post-Lex Luger rap.

Luv the image of a Euro ILXor sitting in an mostly empty club early on a Friday night and following the final rollout of these tracks by glow of an iPhone, nursing a vodka tonic, while sad German techno throbs in the background

yep, song has huge pockets, feels caught in a constant yet subtle ectoplasmic shapeshift xp

Listened to the Talaboman/Superpitcher thing bc of jmm's praise and it was actually what I needed rn. "Nobody" was my Mitski vote btw but I do like "Geyser" a lot. I'm sure the Autechre track is great; just waiting to have a concentrated hour when I can listen.

xps lol i used to do that but at the pub!

40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!” – 206 points – 8 votes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 14:23 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me listening to “moo":

http://kafkaskoffee.com/junk/Abyss/Abyss_AlienWaterWall.gif

HOT TAKE - everything that's placed today is good. Even the Beach House song feels more interesting than they've been for a while.

"hes glued to his phone"
I JUST WANT TO SEE WHERE EVERYTHING IS EMBARRASSING CAME

xxp What movie is that gif from?

Actually fuck Ty Dolla $ign.